Turkey – Egypt 15 nights 16 days
Day 01: Istanbul
Arrival at Istanbul airport and reception by one of our representatives and transfer to the hotel. Residence (Istanbul International Ataturk Airport located in Yesilkoy), located in the European part of the city, 15 km southwest of the capital.
Day 02: Istanbul
Buffet breakfast, free day during which an optional tour (traditional Turkey) is recommended. Meet with our guides to start your visit to Topkapi Palace. Hippodrome, Blue Mosque, and Grand Bazaar. Lunch at a local restaurant, time to shop at over 4,000 stores in the Grand Bazaar. After shopping, transfer to the hotel. Residence.
Day 03: Istanbul – Canakkale
Buffet breakfast, departure to Canakkale, a city and port in Turkey, follows the same name on the Asian side of the Dardanelles. Canakkale and Istanbul are the two Turkish provinces that own territory on two continents. After the visit, free time and at the time agreed with the guide, we continue to visit the ruins of Troy and its wooden statue, and then move to the hotel. Dinner and accommodation.
Day 04: Bergamo – Izmir – Kusadasi
Buffet breakfast, we leave for Bergamo where we will visit Asklepion which is a small settlement in the period of antiquity. Lysimako was one of Alexander the Great’s generals. Bergamo has turned into one of the most elegant cities. Asclebio is the god of medicine.
Continuation of the trip to Izmir. It is a coastal city in Turkey on the Aegean coast, known as Smyrna in ancient times, founded by Greeks who were kidnapped by the Romans, and rebuilt by Alexander the Great before joining the Ottoman Empire in the fifteenth century. then Transfer to the hotel for dinner and accommodation
Day 05: Kusadasi – Efes – Pamukkale
Buffet breakfast, departing to the ancient city of Eves where we will visit the Fountain of Trajan (Eves), has many monuments, such as the Way of the Cross, the Gate of Hercules, the Fountain of Trajan, and the Temple of Adrian. Fountain with dimensions of 20 × 10 meters, surrounded by columns and statues, among them Aphrodite and the emperor’s family, the Polibo Fountain, the Temple of Domitiano, the Grand Theater and the Kilsso Library. Free time for lunch. After lunch, we continue to Pamukkale to visit the Cotton Castle. After the visit, he was transferred to the hotel for dinner and accommodation.
Day 06: Pamukkale – Konya – Cappadocia
Buffet breakfast, departure to the city of Konya where we will visit the monastery of the dervish (mawlui or roller dervishes), a community of dervishes in Turkey, founded by disciples of the great Sufi poet Jalal al-Din Rumi.
At the end of the day, transfer to Cappadocia to the hotel, dine and stay
Day 07: Cappadocia
Buffet breakfast, departure to explore the magnificent city of Cappadocia, with a visit to the Goremy Open Air Museum and the hollow town of Ozkonak, and end the day with a visit to a handicraft and carpet factory. At the end of the day, he was transferred to the hotel for dinner and accommodation.
– Optional 1: Balloon flight (USD 150). Before dawn, a meeting with the guide at the hotel to transfer to our flight by balloon, light food will be served while providing instructions for the flight. After the trip is over, you will be transferred to the hotel.
– Optional 2: Turkish night. Meeting with the guide at the hotel to implement
Day 08: Cappadocia – Ankara
Buffet breakfast, departure to visit the capital of Turkey Ankara. On the way, we will pass Karavansaray (the middle guest house which was the first hotel or hostel of that period where all travelers passing by this place were staying, in the afternoon, we will visit the Museum of Ancient Civilizations in Anatolia and the mausoleum of Ataturk (leader of the war of independence of Turkey, founder and first president of the republic), located in the city of Ankara. Free time for lunch. Then transfer to the hotel for dinner and accommodation.
Day 09: Ankara – Istanbul
Buffet breakfast, departure to Istanbul, arrival at hotel and accommodation. A free evening during which you recommend an optional tour on board the ship and visit Hagia Sophia. We will start this program with a ship trip through the Bosphorus and visit Hagia Sophia (the ancient Orthodox Patriarchal Basilica of the Patriarchate, which has been turned into a mosque and is now a museum. Transfer to the hotel and accommodation.
Day 10: Istanbul
Buffet breakfast, airport shuttle to receive your next flight. Arrival in Cairo. Meet and greet at Cairo International Airport located 15 minutes from the city center, transfer to the hotel and accommodation
Day 11: Cairo – Aswan – Kom Ombo – Edfu
Buffet breakfast, then in the morning we transfer to the airport to take the flight to Aswan, flight time: 35 minutes. Upon arrival, we proceed to take the journey on board the ship as the service includes a full onboard feeding system. Free day and it is recommended to take the optional trip to visit Abu Simbel. It is the eighth wonder of Egypt, where the temples of Ramses II, the most famous pharaoh of Egypt, and the temple of his wife Nefertari, are visited. In the afternoon, you will take a trip by farming (traditional Egyptian dhow) around Elephant Island, and visit the High Dam in
On board
Day 12: Edfu – Esna – Luxor
Buffet breakfast, visit the temple of the god Horus (falcon), built by Ptolemy, and is the second largest and most preserved temple in Egypt throughout its history. Then we continue sailing to Esna to pass through the dams and continue to Luxor. Night on the ship
Day 13: Luxor
Buffet breakfast, in the morning, we cross the Nile to the West Bank to visit the cemetery of Thebes, where we will discover the Valley of the Kings, the burial place of the pharaohs of the twentieth to twenty-second dynasties, their wives and princes of true blood, in tombs carved into the rocks of the mountains. We will also visit the temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Deir el-Bahari and the statues of Memnon. Night on the ship
Day 14: Cairo
Buffet breakfast, drop-offs, we go out to visit the huge and most magnificent collection of antiquity, the temples of Karnak and Luxor, built throughout the ages by many pharaohs over nearly 2000 years of history. Transfer to the airport to take the domestic flight to the city of Cairo. Arrival in Cairo, transfer to hotel. Accommodation.
Day 15: Cairo
Buffet breakfast, we go out to visit the pyramids of Giza, said to be a funerary complex consisting of the pyramids of Cheops, one of the seven wonders of the world, Khafre, Mankoura, the pyramid statue of Khafre and the Valley Temple. Return to the hotel. Accommodation. Optionally, if you want to enter the pyramid to get to know its interior, we recommend taking the optional option to visit the interior at a cost of USD 80 per person.
Buffet breakfast, transfer to the airport to take your next flight.
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